Expose `Contract' For What It Really Is

May 4, 1995

In your editorial proposing the repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act, you slyly take up the cudgel of the Gingrich "Contract on America."The Davis-Bacon Act represents a social benefit alongside the other benefits working people, both black and white, won during the era of the New Deal.

Your attack on the Davis-Bacon Act is intended not only on the act specifically but is part of your attack against organized labor as a whole. Organized labor in its struggles to improve wages and working conditions for the working class has been the back bone for improving the standard of living for all American workers. The unorganized workers indirectly benefit form the gains of unionists. Non-union workers would be worse off if there were no unions. Is that what you are aiming for...to destroy the unions?

The Davis-Bacon Act shall stand and serve as beacon for other needed improvements of our society. Increase the minimum wage law to a minimum union scale wage. Eliminate poverty and the homeless. If you wish to be the true voice of the people, that is the direction you should be taking; or are you the voice and champion of big business, the corporate and wealthy of America?

Write editorials exposing the Dole-Gingrich "Contract on America" for what it is and what it is doing to destroy America. Show your true face. Whose side are you really on?